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St Wilfrid's Church
Duchy Road
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG1 2EY
England
Tickets
Prices: £20 adult / £5 under 16s and students
Book Tickets
Programme
Benjamin Britten – St Nicolas, Op.42
Benjamin Britten – Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria
Benjamin Britten – Old Abram Brown
Benjamin Britten – Jubilate Deo in C major (1961)
Benjamin Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb, Op.30
Performers
Thomas Moore – Conductor
Geoff Woolatt – organ
Anthony Gray – piano
Ed Jones – piano
James Micklethwaite – tenor
Harrogate Choral Society
Northampton Philharmonic Choir
National Festival Orchestra
Programme Note
Marking the 50th Anniversary of the death of Benjamin Britten on 4th December, Harrogate Choral join forces with Northampton Philharmonic Choir to present this wonderful concert in two venues.
The concert will be conducted by Thomas Moore who is both Deputy Music Director of Harrogate Choral and also Music Director of Northampton Philharmonic Choir. There is an additional connection, Rejoice in the Lamb was commissioned by Walter Hussey, Anglican patron of the arts for his church - St Matthews in Northampton, which is the home church for NPC!
We will be singing Saint Nicolas, Rejoice in the Lamb, Jubilate in C and Old Abram Brown and the concert will also include Britten’s only organ composition Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria. The music is fun – Saint Nicolas is patron saint of children and sailors and his life is full of legends which resulted in him becoming Santa Claus, a corruption of his name. The words for Rejoice in the Lamb come from a visionary poem written by scholar Christopher Smart after he had been confined to a Lunatic hospital!
In Northampton we will be conducted by David Lawrence
In Harrogate we will be accompanied by the National Festival Orchestra and conducted by Thomas Moore.
